MAN vs CLOWN EP

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ILL TONEVancouver, British Columbia

ILL TONE is currently back in the lab working on 3 separate releases and expects the first to be complete in winter of 2014.
Most of the beats have been produced by Tone himself, but he’s also teamed up with Dead Giveaway to produce 5 or 6 as well. The instrumentals are a fusion of new age EDM sounding synths and lots of solid live instrumentation....more

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Verse 1: (Ill Tone)
I sit back and observe the facts/
In my view, the world is a circus act/
The rides move quick enough to get ya sick/
It’s a crazy ride, life, as said by Bill Hicks/
Sorta like a roller coaster/
Roads and train tracks connect to keep us close ta/
The main event, the stage in the tent/
Bring money, hot dogs and burgers, man/
I see a lot of evil people/
Welcome to the city, we are the freak show/
Calm down, find solid ground/
Look around, in every single nook that I look is a clown/
Not just absurd, it’s madness/
A circus at work upon a blurred canvas/
Just a victim of the circumstances/
Another acrobat doin’ circus dances.

Chorus: (Ill Tone)
More to this than meets the eye/
Behind the scenes it seems so sly/
Learned to read between the lines/
And I finally found the reason why/
Bein’ lied to by circus carnies/
The police and political parties/
It’s a whole damn dirty army/
That covered up the truth from the very starting.

Verse 2: (Ill Tone)
Walked in the bank and I wanted out/
It stank like a dank old haunted house/
The teller was the ticket vendor/
She said, “Just remember, 20 barely gets you in the tent, sir”/
All the games are rigged up/
The ball hit the cup and bounced back, the jig is up/
Stuff animals? No, only nostrils/
Too much cotton candy, Where’s the hospital?/
I gotta go, feelin’ pain in my abdominal/
I’m gonna throw up, up-chuckin’ at the carnival/
On and on it goes, fallin’ down like dominos/
I hit the ground hard as a rock solid barnacle/
Down for the count thinkin’, “Let me die”/
At the mercy of a clown named Pennywise/
This crazy charade has ruined many lives/
Stay for the parade though, it’s a big surprise!

Chorus: (Ill Tone)
More to this than meets the eye/
Behind the scenes, it seems so sly/
Learned to read between the lines/
And I finally found the reason why/
Bein’ lied to by circus carnies/
The police and political parties/
It’s a whole damn dirty army/
That covered up the truth from the very starting.

Track Name: Kill Switch (ft. Sara Branch)

Verse 1: (Ill Tone)
At times, I whine and complain/
Have it pretty good though, cries are in vain/
Human, it’s a violent name/
People overseas, dyin’, slain/
On the daily hate breeds, aimin’ to take we/
Humans to the Halls of Hades/
Maybe we’ve all gone crazy/
Shootin’, dropping bombs on babies/
As the story unfurls, beneath/
Lies Team America, World Police/
I hurl when I see these adds on T.V./
Be all you can be, but can’t ya be at peace?/
They’re gonna try and scam ya/
Propaganda, lies like George Costanza/
Abort the plan cuz/
We’ll all leave the resource war in handcuffs.

Chorus: (Sara Branch)
What have/ we done? /
Killed our daughters / killed our sons /
Bent humanity ‘til the system’s / will is done /
All to fight a war that can’t / be won.

Verse 2: (Ill Tone)
Afghanistan to Iraq, now Pakistan/
What next? How about Iran/
Genocide on Middle Eastern man/
Son o’ Sam, Klu Klux Klan/
Combine the 2, we kill outta racism/
Way o’ livin’ North American is hate driven/
Now we try and run the world like a state prison/
In Vietnam, killed children and raped women/
This ain’t livin’, it’s death personified/
Star spangled nation based on homicide/
Worldwide, turn the tides/
All the girls and the guys need to learn to arise/
Against the beast, we can make some peace/
But we can’t change the past, dead stay deceased/
Poor’s still poor, rich is still rich/
When they flip the kill switch.

Chorus: (Sara Branch)
What have/ we done? /
Killed our daughters / killed our sons /
Bent humanity ‘til the system’s / will is done /
All to fight a war that can’t / be won.

Vocal Bridge: (Ill Tone)
Hear the bombs in the night/
Why can’t we decide the wrong and the right?/
These troops, just pawns in the fight/
Little kids, born into war torn strife/

Hear the bombs in the night/
Why can’t we decide the wrong and the right?/
These troops, just pawns in the fight/
Little kids, born into war torn strife.

Track Name: Time (ft. MC Dosia, & Julie Webster)

Intro: (Ill Tone)
60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 365 days in a year, 10 years in a decade, 10 decades in a century. We all know time.

Verse 1: (Ill Tone)
Once young, time crawled by/
Not a worry on the planet, always high/
I tried to ride the same vibe/
But as time flies by, what am I? Blind/
Bye, bye, I didn’t even see it leavin’/
Sly time, it seems to be deceivin’/
Now I’m stuck in this fucked up jam and grievin’/
This demon, time, through rhyme and reason/
Leap in, swimmin’ in the deepest end/
Of all time, deep sleep again/
Ill Tone, 6 hours reaped from him/
And no dreams he can see within/
Peace to the time that I lost/
And time that I bought, all the time that it cost/
Define time as a force/
Divine so of course let time run its course.

Verse 2: (MC Dosia)
Time goes so fast, that’s why I smoke grass/
Even in slow motion the moment won’t last/
So I take what I can get and try to seize the day/
Carpe diem, Martin freedom, let ‘em lead the way/
It’s hard to see it but sometimes I gotta leave to stay/
Dry my heart in the fire just to feed the flames/
So they can feel the heat when they each speak my name/
Reach up through the cloud cover, freeze the rain/
In the hope that the snowfall would ease my pain/
Not because I want it but because I need the change/
Just tryin’ to do my thang, get the beat arranged/
Doin’ hip-hop long before the people came/
I do it for my homeboys, man, they keep me sane/
And my family, they taught me how to dream again/
On the fabric of time, tryin’ to leave a stain/
On the grind, I get a piece when no piece remain/
Dig deep to the depths of the deepest plain/
Lost, tryin’ to find my way but every street’s the same/
Dosia, I eat, sleep, breathe the game/
It’s all love, I don’t do it to achieve the fame/
Purebred MC from my feet to brain/
Don’t believe me? Go ahead and bleed the vein/
Put all my blood, sweat, and tear in every verse/
‘Til I’m 6 feet deep in the Earth.

Verse 3: (Ill Tone)
Spent a minute lookin’ at the clock/
Brain may burst like a Jack-in-the-Box/
But I have to watch/
Shit, cross out logic, I’m at a loss/
So time flies by like an albatross/
The source of all motion, feel its force/
Time shows no remorse/
Time’ll take ya life when it’s at its worst/
And in the back of a hearse, time stops/
Why God, how much time do I got?/
God is Time and Time is God/
Despite messiahs, lies, and frauds/
Odd, how we all watch clocks/
Big Ben down to the pocket watch/
It’s time Ill Tone dropped the topic/
Time is tellin’ him it’s time to stop it.

Outro: (Ill Tone)
Gotta enjoy the time ya got. Only 1 life.

Track Name: Walked In

Verse 1: (Ill Tone)
Another typical Saturday evenin’/
They all been the same since I was 18 and.
I spent 6 days, brain schemin’/
On what I’m gonna do, where’m I gonna go, even/
What I’m gonna wear, matter fact scrap that/
Grab a black hat and my tattered ass backpack/
Pack a fat sack of this green/
15 pack o’ that cheap beer, yes, please.

Chorus: (Ill Tone)
Never sober when I show my face/
So forgive if I act like I own the place.

Verse 2: (Ill Tone)
I know a party and it ain’t that far/
Call up my friend Rex, “Grab the damn car”/
“The car’s in the shop for a couple more days/ (Rex)
So I guess that we got to find another way”/ (Rex)
OK, shit, I guess it’s transit then/
Let’s get goin’ on the weekend plan, my friend/
This binge kicked off the previous night/
“We rocked a set and it was serious hype”/ (Rex)
But tonight, 10 times hyper/
Scantily clad girls, freestyle ciphers/
Excitement, comin’ my way, hop the SkyTrain/
Why pay? Bill Gordon Campbell/
I’m a handful in liquored up scenarios/
Turnin’ up the stereo, still I can’t hear it though/
Yo, I do this shit for kicks/
Arrive in a state of belligerence.

Chorus: (Ill Tone)
Never sober when I show my face/
So forgive if I act like I own the place.

Verse 3: (Ill Tone)
Walked in…../
Impaired, marinating on a bottle of Mo’s/
Whoa, I know I chose to go/
But tomorrow, another day of, “Oh no”/
Expect the dreaded hangover/
Ain’t sober so this ain’t over, yet/
Towards the sofa over by the kitchen bendin’ over/
Ass of a princess, inch a little closer/
Close in, actin’ like I’m Casanova/
Fallin’ over like a derailed locomotive/
Feelin’ broken, I can tell/
That I’m past my limit by the way I just fell/
Now, I’ll find Hell at 10 am/
When I awake with, “What’s your name again?”/
No offense to ugly chicks/
“But was she fuckin’ ugly?” (LoKeynote) ….. Yes.

Verse 1: (Ill Tone)
Head spinnin’, eyes open at 11 am/
Yesterday was grim, didn’t behave again/
Man, I may have been sick for a week/
On a major binge of liquor and weed/
All I need is a Tylenol/
If I could even hold it down with all the bile and all/
That I been pukin’ up, done some stupid stuff/
In my life but last night was off the hook/
Body’s broken, I need more than a band-aid/
I was the guy wearin’ the generic lampshade/
Probly disappointed half my fan base/
Not to mention all my other band mates/
It’s a damn shame every crumb o’ my food on/
Sunday came from 1 coupon/
I tried to hit on a chick from the Yukon/
“Hey, baby, I need you to puke on”/
With no shoes on, walkin’ around in the rain/
I can’t explain why, I’m just insane/
Hangover day falls on a Sunday/
Have to work, deal with all the mundane/
Plain, ordinary folks/
I gotta make the money though, I’m very broke/
“Spare any dope?” A homeless man asks/
As I roll real fast past his stanky ass/
“No. What the hell do I look like?/
A whole sale dope-store givin’ a good price?”/
He proceeded sayin’ somethin’ incoherent/
But I didn’t even hear him, my work I’m nearin’/
I walk through the front door/
Almost fall on the liquor store floor/
That I work at and it ain’t that bad/
But it’s a shitty place to spend a hangover, man.

Verse 2: (RcThaHazard)
Why did I drink so much?/
Probably cuz I don’t think enough/
I got some dignity in me but haven’t found it/
Now I gotta deal with a head that’s poundin’/
Body feels like it’s broken in 20 places/
But I remember last night like it was yesterday/
All I know, didn’t have any jimmy cakes/
370 pounds, thought was pretty skinny, eh/
Wants to do it again? Oh no, never/
Good thing I couldn’t remember my own phone number/
To tell her I was loaded, don’t know better/
Looked in the drawer, no more rubbers/
Now a liquor store trip, cheapest bottle of wine/
Robert’s Rock, bottom line, slobber on my cock/
But was the broad hot? Probably not/
Especially after lot o’ vodka shots and wobbly pops/
7 shots at the bar, Yukon Jack/
Tried to leave and put my shoes on backwards/
Drank way too much, wakin’ up/
With Lady Luck then I puked on that girl/
10 hours straight, shot back liquor/
Autographed nipple from a hot ass stripper/
Usually I’d say I never drink again/
Then I think of hard workers at the brewery/
So I do it for them, thanks to them/
I’ll be boozin’, pukin’, doin’ somethin’ stupid again/
Yeah, from the brews to gin/
Fallin’ down stairs, hell yeah, bruise my shins again/
Show me the bottle, RC’s trouble/
Real life version Barney Gumble/
And it ain’t that bad/
I’m just a little sad yo cuz I have no advil.
Oh no.

Intro: (Ill Tone)
Shit. Some people, they don’t know when to quit. I know a couple people like that.

Verse 1: (Ill Tone)
There’s a man and he knows no bounds/
When it comes to buildin’ promises up and knockin em’ down/
There is a lot to be found/
In a man such as he, how he slinks around/
This small town in which he resides/
On the outside he’s proud, inside he’s all lies/
Sly, shy kind o’ guy/
The kind to try wise words to earn the prize/
Despised by even those he loves/
He broke the bonds all gone over drugs/
Enough is enough but it’s rough/
Cuz he doesn’t know enough, hope go snuffed/
Coke, he’s on it, so dishonest/
Sows an enormous broken promise/
On a lot o’ non emotional shit, he talks it/
Just another hollow promise.

Chorus: (Julie Webster)
Nowhere to go, he’s aimless/
He can’t control his own anguish/
Explains through a flow, in English/
But no one seems to speak the same language/
He goes wherever the pain is/
Breakin’ the endeavors he made to make changes/
Take it with a grain of salt/
It is he ultimately who lays at fault.

Verse 2: (Ill Tone)
He’s got some shit goin’ on so he lies to friends/
About the problem that he doesn’t have, but why pretend?/
In the end, friends, maybe could’ve saved him/
If he’d made amends, rearranged the situation/
He’s forsaken anybody who relied upon him/
That’s a problem, Mother - Father no longer want him/
He’s a con man so they know he’ll con them/
Now he’s cat burglin’ and that’s his solid plan/
Scam after scam, again and again/
He’s gonna end up in a federal pen./
Or dead from the binge, dead hooligan/
Who shrugs it off but ya can’t fool a friend and/
He’s lucky cuz he’s got a couple good ones/
And they wouldn’t give up, fuck, they probly should’ve/
They reach out, he begins to weep/
In too deep, in too deep.

Chorus: (Julie Webster)
Nowhere to go, he’s aimless/
He can’t control his own anguish/
Explains through a flow, in English/
But no one seems to speak the same language/
He goes wherever the pain is/
Breakin’ the endeavors he made to make changes/
Take it with a grain of salt/
It is he ultimately who lays at fault.

Verse 3: (Ill Tone)
1 month clean/
In way of his path lay bumps unseen/
Loved drugs now he loves drug free/
Finally realized he’s a fucked up fiend/
1st step achieved, admission of the problem.
If ya can’t admit ya problems, how the fuck you gonna solve them?/
The coke sniffin’ and the robbin’/
Had him thinkin’ that he wasn’t gonna make it through the Autumn/
Now he is stronger than ever/
Lives honestly, his karma is better/
For those who are fed up with everything, keep ya head up/
Don’t ever give up on happiness, yeah, it’s sad but/
What’s the point in dwellin’ on the past?/
Grasp a moment and make it last/
Just advice from the man in the song/
Ill Tone, if ya didn’t know all along, I’m gone.

Chorus: (Julie Webster)
Nowhere to go, he’s aimless/
He can’t control his own anguish/
Explains through a flow, in English/
But no one seems to speak the same language/
He goes wherever the pain is/
Breakin’ the endeavors he made to make changes/
Take it with a grain of salt/
It is he ultimately who lays at fault.

Track Name: Mysterious

Verse 1: (Ill Tone)
Life, it’ll always keep us guessin’/
Step by step, lesson after lesson/
Each new path manifest questions/
Why then, do I struggle with depression?/
I was a troubled adolescent/
Perpetual stress led to aggression/
I’d get a glimpse of happiness then next second/
I’d be wreckin’ everything in sight, fightin’ with a weapon/
My depression, since before drugs it goes back/
Just imagine how it got when I smoked crack/
I got a chemical dependence that is so bad/
Lost all I had, fist fought with my own dad/
Now I focus only on the soul clap/
Travel that path of the boom-bap/
And I don’t ever wanna lose that/
True fact, passion it grew back.

Verse 2: (Ill Tone)
It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle/
Can’t find the answer that’s trapped in the middle/
Can’t stand the people who act like it’s simple/
It’s a little more complex than the cat and the fiddle/
Try not to worry ‘bout its complex aspects/
Simple things are its strongest assets/
This life is gone as fast as/
It came, only things left are death and taxes/
Power forward like my last name was Backes/
On the attack and a beast on the back-check/
Have to back step in to some past shit/
Scrap with past issues, bet you that’s it/
So glad I never went to my own grad/
Only gradded to please the people in the home I had/
Ups and downs that we all have/
“So sad”, Sometimes it hurts so bad.

Bridge: (Ill Tone)
It’s crazy how life can change in the blink of an eye. I guess it ain’t all bad though, right? Yo, look…

Verse 3: (Ill Tone)
I tell it how I see it through my pencil/
Life can change quicker than a D-Rec instrumental/
Despite the evil, detrimental events/
Nothing’s even weakened my plans/
Keep advancin’, hold this beat for ransom/
Beat it to death on my album and hope it pays a grand sum/
Of money, no longer is it funny/
Sole’s (soul’s) got holes and the underground is muddy/
Look buddy, I’m far from normal/
From a place full of farms and cornrows/
Whatcha know about rows of corn?/
Rippin’ through the fuckin’ field in a Ford Explorer/
Wrecked a couple rides goin’ mach 6/
Bodies got tossed around like in a mosh pit/
Know why my album hadn’t dropped yet?/
Turned my budget to beer money and sniffed my profits.